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A state-funded Islamic school has told female teachers that they must wear
Islamic headscarves during school hours, regardless of their religion, and
make girl pupils sit at the back of the class, it was claimed yesterday.

Staff at al-Madinah School in Derby have told their union that they have been
asked to sign new contracts agreeing to wear a hijab and implement the
classroom segregation.

The free school, set up in September last year, caters for 200 students aged
between 4 and 16. Speaking when the school was set up, Andrew Cutts-McKay,
then the head teacher, said that the school